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Why The Loss of Nipsey Hussle is The Brutal Reminder of Unchallenged Reality

Ezinne Ukoha
6 min readApr 3, 2019

White supremacy is a mutha!

Centuries later, and those chains can’t be unshackled for shit.

The brutal murder of Nipsey Hussle has paralyzed me.

When he was alive and well, I barely paid attention. In fact, it was about two weeks ago or little bit more than that, when I stumbled upon the vibrant GQ spread that featured the rapper, entrepreneur, community activist and so much more, with his ladylove, actress Lauren London.

It was a beautiful collage of love in the culture that celebrates such things in verses, but when you see it manifested in all its glory — there’s nothing like it.

And then when the shots rang out and the death was announced, the present climate forces you to research videos from the past, and that’s when the hilariously entertaining Q & A session between the two artists hit my screen, and I was frozen.

And then right after that, hours were spent getting to know the young man whose life was violently stolen at…

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